The 1990s are behind us, as is the breakup of
the Soviet Union. The 2000s balancing over the cliff, the years of the debt
slavery to IMF, unlimited rule of the oligarchs, the status of the regional
power, gangs of non-systemic opposition by the American embassy, isolation and
haughty attitude – all of this is in the past.

It is very important today, having finished
that part of our path, to learn lessons from the past. Particularly because the
war itself hasn’t disappeared, and the pressure of the collective West on our
country is very much in evidence right now.

The most important conclusion appears to be
that the deepest and the most prolonged depressions in the history of Russia
coincide not with wars but with the periods of revolutions. Nineteen
seventeenth, nineteen ninety first, and, finally, the aborted one, two thousand
twelfth.

The dynamics of the GDP per capita in Russia
from 1885 through 2011. The value for 1913 is 100%.

To destroy our country, our “friend and
partners” were counting precisely on revolutions. And we have to admit that
relying on a revolution in Russia rather than on a military confrontation with
it, they have created the largest number of problems and difficulties for us.

If the Bolsheviks managed to reach the pre-war
level after the WWI and civil war in the first 5-year period, and the losses
after the Great Patriotic war were already recouped by 1955, we are still
recovering after the catastrophe of 1991 with great difficulty.

GDP of Russia – USSR – Russian Federation in %
of the GDP of the USA

Only at the end of two thousand twelfth after
the defeat of the most dangerous attempt at revolution, Russia succeeded in
transferring the battle for its sovereignty to the international front. The
country did not only succeed in defending itself but also developed immunity to
further attempts by the West to arrest the Russia’s development using the
traditional Western tools – regime change and incitement of internecine
conflicts. The country has come to understand the most important thing – the
mortal danger of a stab in the back administered within its own borders.

Thanks to that, we have gained time and are
continuing to develop successfully.

Even the enormous pressure the West
consolidated against us, its sanctions, engineered drop in the oil prices, economic
sabotage and juridical outrage in 2015 – the pressure that would have brought
down any other country – in Russia only resulted in 3% reduction in GDP.
Furthermore, by the end of this year, according to the European estimates,
Russia is to expect positive growth.

Wars, crises, pressure, maligning – all of this
does not really scare us. We have always weathered storms and have always
emerged from them stronger than before.

Table: Three crises in
comparison

Our chief enemy has always been the “5th column”
inside the country. Those “our people” that betrayed our country at some time
or other and, for the money of their sponsors, deceived their former
compatriots. Fortunately, today we have become much more experienced, everyone
has Internet available, and the Russian society is united by the deep sense of
patriotism and generally is much more cohesive that even a few years ago.

All of this gives us a good chance to move our
country to a new level of development.

Today, we already are in possession of an
outstanding army.

We are one of the recognized leaders
in technological innovations. We are again welcoming more little compatriots as
the population growth is being restored after catastrophic 1990s.

Population growth in 1961-2016.

The geopolitical, diplomatic and military
multi-step combinations devised by the Russian leadership time and again win
the upper hand over the multibillion dollar analytical and specialized
“agencies” of the Western countries.

But all these achievements are not the
accidents of fate but the results of the tremendous effort, sophisticated
analysis, well-calculated tactics and brilliant strategy.

Putin’s operation of 16 years duration

In the West, propaganda is usually considered
connected with two phenomena – war and power, but it is recognized that
propaganda by itself is unable to guarantee the loyalty of the people or
popularity to any leader. That is why powers that be often ensure loyalty by
force. Since the Western world is convinced that it is the “Crown of Creation”,
it explains the Putin’s popularity rating by either propaganda, or the
authoritarian nature of the regime, or by both. The ordinary people in the West
are restricted by biased Western media to the view of reality in those
simplistic terms. Only these paradigms are discussed or described in
interviews.

That is precisely how propaganda operates, not
imagined one but the real Western propaganda. The truth is hidden behind the
different types of lie, and an ordinary person living, say, in the US has a
hard type understanding the real situation.

In 2000s, Russia was of no interest to the
world’s media. In 2007 at the Munich conference, tough words of President Putin
perplexed the West. The media exploded with the headlines “Who is mister
Putin?” arousing in the West a certain amount of interest towards Russia.
However, since Putin’s words were addressed to the leaders of the Western
countries and not to their citizens, the interest did not last long. In his
speech that had the effect of turning the international relations upside down,
Putin stated the most important idea – “enough is enough, Russia will no longer
follow recommendations and demands from the outside. Period”.

The West was not slow to react: in 2008 the
West decided to teach a lesson to that not particularly important “former
superpower”. A puppet regime was used to destabilize the most vulnerable region
of the country – the Caucasus. This was done in a traditionally underhanded
dishonorable manner during the Olympic games, the event, for which for
centuries wars used to be stopped. A signal to our country was sent.

Unexpectedly, however, a ruined fragment of
once powerful country sent “rusted leftovers” of its once powerful military
beyond its borders and crushed the Western-trained “invincible” army. That was
unexpected, but, on the other hand, quite typical of the Russians. After all,
we have always been considered the best warriors in the world, and the US did
not see in the events anything menacing for itself. They understood very well
that the important thing wasn’t who won on the ground but what would be told to
the world about the conflict. The winner would be the one named the winner by
the world media. As a result, after successfully forcing Georgia to accept
peace settlement, the US easily won the information war over Russia and
supplanted reality with a fiction.

Everything quieted down. Russia kept doing
something in its “regional corner” without bothering the serious people of the
world. The leader that said such dangerous things in 2008 left the position of
the President and, judging by the reports, the current President was quite
acceptable for the West. The US did not see much sense to do anything at all
about Russia. Why bother pressuring the country if it is not doing anything and
is incapable to overcome its own deficiencies?

The years passed, and the new elections
approached. The 5th column of the country started to send
alarming report, and the West decided to check them out. The disintegrated army
kept buying the Western military equipment; the minister of defense was clearly
incompetent individual; the economy was slowly growing but still the money was
being spent incompetently. The treasuries were being bought as usual; the
foreign corporations have unlimited access – so, there was no cause to worry.
One thing bothered, though – the popularity rating of that same Putting who had
several times defeated the western schemes. Using the data of the liberal 5th column,
which has always been the conduit of the Western influence in Russia,
anglo-saxons decided to use their favorite well-tested method.

After the elections to the State Duma, right in
the middle of the presidential campaign, the civil unrest was initiated in the
country; billions of dollars were poured into the Russia via the non-government
organization (NGO), which had not been closed during the entire preceding
period, via the agents of influence and embassy officials. The entire network
in Russia was activated at once. The liberal puppets delivered exultant
reports; local non-government media night and day broadcasted interviews and speeches
of the opposition figures, and not only the ones controlled by the West but
also politicians that decided it was time to join them. Everything was going
according to plan, and the final hour was coming.

The first annoying sign was the refusal to
grant the permission to hold the meeting on the Triumphal Square. The
opposition had to settle for the permission to conduct their action on the
Bolotnya Square. However, the 5th column felt on top of the
world expecting total success and did not pay attention to this fact. . .

The second sign, which caused serious anxiety
among the Western field agents, was the meeting of Vladimir Putin with the
population that demonstrated clear disgust of the society with the opposition
politicians and desire to demonstrate support for the President. But since
Putin took no steps to use the popular support, these demonstrations were
declared by the opposition-controlled media to have been staged, and the
preparation for the meeting on Bolotnya continued according to the all too
familiar plan . . .

All the events at that time and the actions of
our President were a dangerous game. Many Russian citizens still do not
appreciate how dangerous the events of that day were. Putin’s game was a
complex intrigue and very risky.

It is well known that the greater the risk, the
greater the prize. Net result of that operation was outing of the whole network
of Western influence in the country, full takeover of the media fed by Western
funds, full control over politicians and others who then acted on the side of
the West, and the ability to control liberal faction in the government, which
still lives under the Damoclean sword of compromising information obtained back
then.

These events, a complete defeat of Anglo-Saxons
in a game they were considered great masters of, caused total prostration of
the collective West. The West put in a considerable effort to determine the
real situation in the country, as it clearly saw the discrepancy between the
reports of the “5th column” and reality. However, as the
network of Western influence and its sources were “cleaned up” by the Russian
special services, and every step of known agents of Western influence in power
was controlled, this work was slow…

But the longer was the analysis, the more
dreadful looked the reality…

It turned out that the army, which was
presumably being destroyed by one “economist”, in reality had been thoroughly
reformed; the industry serving the military was regularized; engineering teams
had lots of contracts; military units that were thought to increase only a
little were rearmed at incredible pace, and all that after reports that the
country cannot produce anything and is buying Western samples for that reason.
But the worst (for the West) situation was in the economy. How did in just ten
years a country that was 69th by GDP surpass Germany, fifth
economy in the world and #1 in Europe! How did the economy grow almost
at Chinese speed!

Dynamics of Russia GDP per capita from 1885
through 2011 (The value for 1913 is 100%)

The strategy of containment was revived,
specialists were reassigned to this direction, a huge army of special services
personnel was directed against this old and still unbroken competitor. The West
knew full well that if it does not stop the Russian revival now, while Russia
is still not quite stable on its feet, it could lose not only the influence over
Russia, but also the world hegemony.

From 2014 to 2015, Russia was subjected to
assaults that no country was supposed to withstand, particularly not a country
that just had a pre-revolutionary situation.

The project, which is at least 600 years old, of
making part of the Russian people a weapon against Russia, is revived. Ukraine,
which was quetly being destroyed by the West during all this period, using an
example that worked in the middle of the XXth century, is rapidly converted
into a military battering ram against Russia.

The West acts quickly, often sloppily, and at
the beginning the Russian special services successfully counteract this.
However, the pressure and financing turns out to be so great, with so many
countries involved, that the situation changes dramatically. Several
operations, including Maidan, are conducted in rapid succession. The majority
of European countries unexpectedly support the creation of the temporary
government, depriving Russia of the claim of illegitimacy of the new powers,
whereas the media organize an unprecedented operation of whitewashing the coup
in Ukraine. Under the circumstances, Russia has to wash its hands off the
Ukrainian political process. Although in this the West won, it does not stand
to reason to accuse Russia of doing nothing in Ukraine during the last 20
years.

In the 90s, Russia was in many ways weaker than
separated from it Ukraine, and could only focus on its own survival. The
Western media wrote with glee that the military potential of military Ukraine
was greater than that of the Russian Federation. Indeed, as far as military
hardware is concerned, Western analysts were right. One has to wonder how this
colossal potential, essentially stolen from the Soviet people by “independent”
Ukraine, could be wasted in just 20 years… Next, in the 2000s, Russia with
great effort but quietly was restoring itself and did not have the capacity to
interfere with the affairs of a foreign state. Only after 2012, Russia
reemerges on the international stage.

What could have been done in just two years,
when by that time the West had more than two decades to nurture in Ukraine a
generation of its admirers?

Everything cannot be done at once.

However, Russians do not surrender, so, having
distanced itself from the events in Kiev, Russia concentrated on Crimea.

The first actions of the new power in Kiev
caused protests in Crimea, where the majority of the population is
Russian-speaking. In parallel, Russian influence was mobilized via public
organizations, such as “Russian community of Crimea” and party “Russian Unity”.
In addition, direct dialog with the local powers in the autonomy was
established. Few people know that, by Crimean peninsula, being an autonomy
within Ukraine, right after Maidan events received an ultimatum from new Kiev
authorities. The leadership of Crimea was told that within a day a plane will
depart in the direction of Crimea, with new administration, and that military
hardware is moving towards Crimea. The leadership was strongly recommended to
leave before the arrival of the new administration. The details of the military
operation prepared against them by the junta were forwarded to the Crimean
authorities by Russia, and the Crimean authorities immediately asked the
Russian Federation for the help.

In the morning of February 23, Putin tasked the
heads of the armed forces and police to begin preparatory work for the return
of Crimea to Russia. On March 1, Russian solders with local volunteers blocked
all installations of the Ukrainian military on the peninsula. In the early
morning of February 27, in response to an attempt of supporters of Mejlis and
new Ukrainian powers to take over the building of the Crimean parliament,
Russian special forces took over the defense of Crimean administrative
buildings, and Supreme Soviet of Crimea decided to conduct an all-Crimea
referendum. Sergey Aksenov, the leader of “Russian Unity” party, became the
head of the new Crimean government. He announced that Crimea does not recognize
new the Ukrainian government and asked Russia to “help ensure peace and quiet
in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea”. The referendum about the status of
Crimea was held on March 16. Based on its results, Republic of Crimea signed a
treaty about joining Russia.

After that huge fiasco with the loss of the
most valuable for the West part of its new colony and inglorious retreat of the
battleship “Donald Cook” sent to “help”, the US became furious.

Virtually immediately, in April, the West
showed its true colors by initiating a hot conflict. Using its puppets and
supported by a part of Ukrainian population, Kiev starts an aggression against
Eastern Ukraine bordering Russia. The operation verges on genocide of Russian
population in the area. Ukraine uses prohibited by international conventions
phosphorus bombs, cassette bombs, burns people alive, deliberately targets
civilians, and so on. All this demonstrated cruelty has one purpose: to force
Russia to invade the territory of a foreign country. Everything was done to
achieve this, but even more was done to close the trap thus prepared for the
“Russian bear” once it is in it …

The world media were on the ready; engaged
politicians froze with microphones near their mouths, the world public opinion
was prepared, and in Russia the game “Putin, move in the troops!” was played
out…

The world stopped in anticipation… And… nothing
happened…

Nothing that the West expected happened, but
something else did happen. Putin withstood enormous pressure, but dozens of spy
satellites observing Russian-Ukrainian border showed that Russian army remained
on its positions. While collective West held the trap open and looked at it, in
a different place, a bit to the side, two independent republics were declared
unexpectedly, which unexpectedly had armed militias. Every day the quantity and
quality of these militias, their supplies and support, grew. Since then the
army of the aborigines in the new colony, Ukraine, taught by the US, suffered
shameful defeats, encirclements, and surrenders. In the meantime, the West
pretended to be a second Napoleon trying to convince the world without a
modicum of proof of Russian involvement that one of the most powerful armies on
the planet fights in Ukraine with its invisible ghost divisions…

The military path turned out to be a dead end
for the US, and to prevent further defeats, which tarnished the image of the
world “policeman”, the West, as is its wont, asked to start negotiations…

At the same time, the collective West conducted
in another part of the world a greatest military operation since WWII – the
creation of controllable tools –the terrorist armies.

Thing is, right now we live in the world with a
military balance. The nuclear potential of the two powers does not allow the
West to start a war for absolute world domination. The probability of mutual
destruction for many years prevents the US and its satellites from starting a
global war against Russia and its allies. Russian breakthrough in the
development of hypersonic weapons (read here) makes the prospect of military
success against it even less likely.

Even incorporation of new colonies the West has
to conduct via financial expansion, which is slow, expensive, and not as
effective as it would like. Thus, on the background of weakened Russia, with
unprecedented provocation on September 11, the grand operation of destabilizing
whole parts of the planet was launched, and the policy of controlled chaos was
initiated. After staged events with twin towers, the world was told that
terrorism is the main enemy. Interestingly, in 2001 terrorism was not a great
threat; futheremore, few countries were familiar with it, except Russia and
Israel. Importantly, the influence and spread of terrorism increased as the US,
under the pretext of war on terrorism, occupied one country after another.
While Russia, after taking over new territories, leaves universities, culture,
economy, and life in its wake, the US taking over countries leave anarchy,
chaos, and always the armies of ORGANIZED terrorists.

Thus, on the one hand, the US got a pretext to
invade resource-rich countries and the ability to print more money to finance
these wars, while, on the other hand, forming terrorist armies controlled by
them.

There were several reasons for this plan.

First– the American debt. And ever increasing
problems of servicing it, as it grows.

Second– the creation of chaos. By creating it
everywhere except at home the US forms an impression that it is a “safe haven”
for capital, attracting enormous financial flows to the US from destabilized
regions.

Third, which is the most important, terrorist
groups are not state armies. They cannot be attacked with nukes, as they act on
the territories of countries. The terror does not maintain a traditional
frontline, but it has commanders. This makes them a controllable tool. The only
party that could stop terror, according to the Western plan, was the US, and
any disobedience towards the US would immediately precipitate a terrorist attack.

Forth – TTIP. The treaty needed by the shadow
financial rulers, corporations and finance groups. To stimulate its signing,
millions of migrants, created by controlled chaos, were sent to Europe. The
final act was getting close and everything was ready.

On September 29, 2015, the US and terrorist and
mercenary groups controlled by them are within 20 km of Damascus. The key piece
of the American operation, Syria, was almost ready to take its appointed place,
the US is celebrating…

All of a sudden, on September 30, 2015, Russian
air force starts airstrikes against terror groups all over the Syrian
territory, which the world community and its special services did not expect.
Bombers and strikers, protected by fighter jets and helicopters, Russia-based planes
of Russian strategic air force, launches of cruise missiles from ships of Black
Sea and Caspian fleets, salvos of newest cruise missiles “Calibr” of various
modifications nobody knew about. The Russian airbase was protected by marines,
paratroopers of the Russian airforce an army special forces. Also, the base was
protected by arriving systems of PRO, radio-electronic warfare, whereas Russian
warships entered the Mediterranean. Military transport planes, which Russia,
according to presumably reliable intelligence, could not have in such
quantities, created a “bridge” between the two countries, transporting
unbelievable quantities of military supplies.

The seemingly successful Western operation of
creating an arc of instability and forming from the remnants of Libya, Syria
and Iraq of a new state controlled by the US, which was supposed to supply
terrorism, that was almost competed, was ruined. More than 10 years of work,
several states, many hundreds of billions of dollars, with the endgame in
Syria, were crushed by the Polite Army…

Naturally, nothing is over yet. While in Syria
mile after mile of the territory is taken away from terrorists, and the
country, thanks to Russia, got a peace of sorts, the US still has Libya and
Iraq.

But these are geopolitical issues, which will
be dealt with in due time. The Russian Syria, meanwhile, is a question of our
security, a foothold beyond the state borders. With this foothold, Western
plans to push controlled terror by it to the Central Asia, the Russian
underbelly, became much less acute and dangerous.

Still, it is guaranteed that right there we
should expect the next “gift” from our foreign “friends and partners”.

GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

Unfortunately, lots of people still do not
think about why the US and England now pressure our country so fiercely. One
can find the answer above. As well as in evaluating what exactly did stop the
first large-scale military operation of post-Soviet Russia outside of its
territory.

There is no doubt that Western attempts to put
pressure on our economy, destabilize our civil society, lure Russia into
anti-Russian unions, and play on inter-ethnic tensions will continue.

However, we must acknowledge that the fears of
Western states are quite justified…

Huge territory, colossal resources, intelligent
population, high morality – Russia has everything to become a dominant state.
History shows that every time Russia overcame one aggression or another and the
pressure on it temporarily weakened, a period of furious development followed.
Getting rid of “shackles and burdens” that held the country down, Russia
invariably responded by numerous actions, accomplishments, successes, and rapid
growth.

Thus, it is hardly surprising that during these
periods the West hastily united and collectively put pressure on our country.
In other words, it did exactly what we see today.

Luckily, excellent diplomacy, masterful actions
in geopolitics and a well-reasoned approach to internal enemies, as well as the
best in the world nuclear defense force, in addition to the highly mobile and
professional army, allow Russia to strengthen its constructive role as a
Eurasian super-power, the role of the main counterbalance to imperial hegemony
of the US and liberal madness of the EU.

Taken together, all of this can in the
foreseeable future make our country a recognized leader of the world resistance
to corporatocracy, globalization, false tolerance and political correctness,
turn it into the main defender of traditional spiritual, religious, moral, and
historic values of all peoples on Earth against the West that lost all
bearings.

We will never go down the path of
self-isolation, xenophobia, search for enemies or suspiciousness. These are all
signs of weakness. We are strong and confident in ourselves.

assange

At midday on Friday 5 February, 2016 Julian Assange, John Jones QC, Melinda Taylor, Jennifer Robinson and Baltasar Garzon will be speaking at a press conference at the Frontline Club on the decision made by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on the Assange case.